That's just one apocryphal Bergman factoid (Webster's dates "dramaturg" back to 1870) that theater producer Andrew Higgie has collected over the half dozen years it has taken him to get the filmmaker's "Through a Glass Darkly" screenplay up and running as a stage play at London's

Terry L. Galloway is a deaf writer (poetry, essays, memoir, and plays), director, dramaturg, and performance artist who has an international reputation for scandalous humor combined with incisive insight.

Before a script lands on the desk of a Broadway producer, the chances are good has landed on the coffee tables of trusted friends and colleagues, in the inbox of an insightful literary manager and in the hands of a skilled dramaturg.